gs--yes, gv--yes, lpr--no Font problems still...

2009-05-12 Thread Hugh Myers
After getting both gs and gv to find and use the .PFB fonts on my
system I am now stumped by lpr. I had thought that lpr would use
ghostscripts font mechanism to resolve font references in a postscript
file, but apparently not. While both of the other utilities correctly
find and display the desired font, lpr defaults to some version of
courier (same thing others did before I found a fix.) Could anyone
explain this? Don't need much, but do need to be drop-kicked in the
right direction. Thanks in advance...

--hsm

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Re: gs--yes, gv--yes, lpr--no Font problems still...

2009-05-12 Thread René Berber
Hugh Myers wrote:

 After getting both gs and gv to find and use the .PFB fonts on my
 system I am now stumped by lpr. I had thought that lpr would use
 ghostscripts font mechanism to resolve font references in a postscript
 file, but apparently not. While both of the other utilities correctly
 find and display the desired font, lpr defaults to some version of
 courier (same thing others did before I found a fix.) Could anyone
 explain this? Don't need much, but do need to be drop-kicked in the
 right direction. Thanks in advance...

lpr uses whatever is the default printer for Windows, if that printer
understands postscript or not, and if the application or driver sends
the fonts or not when needed, is part of the printer configuration.

What usually works with no problem is letting GS control the printing,
that is setting GhostScript as a port (with the printer as parameter).

I haven't done this in a long time; very similar to what you do on Unix
to use PS with a plain printer.
-- 
René Berber


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